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THE SWEDISH RHAPSODY

RAPSODIA SUECA

By Fran RUVIRA

INTROPIA MEDIA - as PROD

Documentary - Development 2020

This film is a look at the 20th century through the shadowy story of a Swedish actress turned spy. Europe as the stage to the greatest role of her life.

Festivals
& Awards

DOCS VALENCIA 2018
BEST PROJECT
CURSO DESARROLLO IBERMEDIA 2018
BEST PROJECT
Guadalajara FICG 2019
BEST PROJECT COPRODUCTION MARKET
ABYCINE LANZA 2019
BEST PROJECT
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    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SPAIN, FRANCE, MEXICO
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, CATALAN, FRENCH, SWEDISH
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Fran RUVIRA
    • Writer(s)
    • Fran RUVIRA, Serrana TORRES
    • Producer(s)
    • Serrana TORRES (INTROPIA MEDIA), Charlotte UZU (LES FILMS D'ICI), Marco Antonio SALGADO (CINEMA 226)
    • Synopsis
    • This is the story of a mysterious Swedish woman, Karin Lannby (1916-2007), spy, writer and actress… An unknown but efficient spy, who captivated personalities like Buñuel, Bergman, Lorca or Cocteau. Following her trail, we embark on an epic journey from the Spanish civil war, through neutral Stockholm during the Second World War to the Cold War in Paris. Her adventures thrust us into a story where the reality and imagination of a character worthy of spy cinema blur and intertwine.

      It is a journey that takes us to different cities such as Valencia, Barcelona, Stockholm, Palermo or Paris, where Karin Lannby lived. It is told through a narrative form that is close to that of detective films. Throughout the film, different devices are intertwine to bring us close to the different facets that the character hides in a kind of mask game, based on her reports and radio messages as a spy, her films as an actress, her personal diary, her poems…

      Her counter-espionage operations mix with her passion for Federico García Lorca, who she took as literary inspiration for her poems and as a motor for her personal struggle after his murder.

      Finally, Karin Lannby abandons her life as a spy, renounces Swedish nationality and ends her days in a village on the outskirts of Paris, married to an ex-priest worker. There is no doubt that she took many secrets to the grave, but she left many clues about her identity hidden in her reports, files, poems and films.

      Therefore, this film delves into a web of espionage to learn about the story of this woman, who used the fascination of cinema, theatre and literature to project her ideals of social justice. Faced with the barbarity of war, Karin Lannby built her own character as a spy with other weapons such as words, imagination and poetry…

      Karin’s story provides the perfect excuse to reflect on the process of creating the film itself as well as the game of masks, in short, the mystery of cinema.
    • Partners & financing
    • INTROPIA MEDIA SL
      CO PRODUCERS : LES FILMS D'ICI; CINEMA226
      ICEC ( Regional Government Fund SPAIN )
      Award ARGOS Centro de Producción Gabriel Garcia Marquez
      16 NOU
      CMM - Castilla de la Mancha Media
    • Production schedule
    • CALENDARIO PRODUCCIÓN

      DESARROLLO NOV 2017  MAYO 2020
       
      PRODUCCION JUNIO 2020 - AGOSTO 2020

      POSPO SEPTIEMBRE 2020 - DICIEMBRE 2020

      MASTER FEBRERO 2021 
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Jul 01, 2020
    • End of shooting
    • Jul 31, 2020
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